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"Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding."
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"She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn."
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"Himself an ugly man, insignificantof appearance, he prized very highly comeliness in others."
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"The little man gave the big one a look. One of his eyes was green, one was black, and both were cool."
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"Her face is silting up, like a pond; layers are accumulating. Every once in a while, when she can afford the time, she spends a few days at a spa north of the city, drinking vegetable juice and having ultrasound treatments, in search of her original face, the one she knows is under there somewhere; she comes back feeling toned up and virtuous, and hungry."
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"Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and animation, and especially whatever peace you can broker with the person inside.It's furrow, pinch, and judgement that make us look older - our mothers were right. They said that if you made certain faces, they would stick, and they do. But our mothers forgot that faces of kindness and integrity stick as well."
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"Though Queen Victoria in England had suggested that makeup was impolite, even vanity, Gideon saw it as yet another weapon. It was not so different from magic."
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"He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say "when!""
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"There was a photograph of Trout. He was an old man with a full black beard. He looked like a frightened, aging Jesus, whose sentence to crucifixion had been commuted to imprisonment for life."
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"For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason."
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"There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element."
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"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."
People
"Character must be kept bright as well as clean."
Character
"Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough."
Man
"I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it."
Advice
"If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you."
Love
"There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult."
People
"If you are not in fashion, you are nobody."
Fashion
"Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison."
Health
"Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed."
Mistake
"Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one."
People
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